Partner’s Global
Forest Coalition have just released a Community
Conservation Special Edition of their newsletter ‘Forest Cover’. The
editorial highlights that community conservation initiatives are a real
legitimate solution to conservation, ecosystem restoration and climate change.
Articles include the role of Indigenous and community conservation in the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicators for the 2030 Vision “Transforming
Our World” and Natural Justice’s Cath Traynor contributed a piece summarizing
the recent “Fostering Community Conservation Conference” and Relevance for the
upcoming meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Two CBD meetings
are being held this week in Montreal, Canada; they are the Nineteenth meeting
of the Subsidiary Body of Scientific and Technical Advice, which will consider strategic
scientific and technical issues related to the implementation of the Strategic
Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020; and the Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended
Working Group on Article 8(j) of the CBD. This will consider, among others,
issues related to Prior, Informed Consent of communities for accessing their
knowledge, equitable sharing of benefits, and regional cooperation in the
protection and sharing of traditional knowledge. The findings and
recommendations from the Fostering Community Conservation Conference as well as
the reports from the individual country studies provide clear evidence that
community conserved areas are legitimate initiatives that bring about real and
consistent results in the interests of conservation and human well-being.

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Natural Justice is an international NGO facilitating the legal empowerment of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Natural Justice takes its name from the legal principle that people should be involved in decisions that affect them. Accordingly, we assist communities to engage with legal frameworks to secure environmental and social justice. Join us as we explore the rapid changes happening across the world in the field of environmental law.